Comment by jamesu
3 years ago
Long-term I think the real problem for artists will be corporations generating their own high quality targeted datasets from a cheap labor pool, completely outcompeting them by a landslide.
3 years ago
Long-term I think the real problem for artists will be corporations generating their own high quality targeted datasets from a cheap labor pool, completely outcompeting them by a landslide.
In the short-to-medium term, we're seeing huge improvements in the data efficiency of generative models. We haven't really started to see self-training in diffusion models, which could improve data efficiency by orders of magnitude. Current models are good at generalisation and are getting better at an incredible pace, so any efforts to limit the progress of AI by restricting access to training data is a speedbump rather than a roadblock.
It will democratize art.
Art is already democratized. It has been for decades. Everyone can pick it up at zero cost. Even you!
The poorest people have historically produced great art. Training a model, however? Expensive. Running it locally? Expensive. Paying the sub? Expensive.
Nothing is being democratized, the only thing this does is devaluing the blood and sweat people have put into their work so FAANG can sell it to lazy suckers.
Time is not a zero cost thing, and especially not for the poorest people.
then it won't be art anymore, it'll just be mountains of shit
sorta like what the laptop did for writing
This is a good point. There hasn’t been any writing since the release of the Gateway Solo in 1995